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From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Why git shows staging area to users?
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On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Yi, EungJun <semtlenori@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> Why git shows staging area to users, compared with the other scms hide
> it? What benefits users get?

http://thkoch2001.github.com/whygitisbetter/#the-staging-area
http://tomayko.com/writings/the-thing-about-git
http://gitready.com/beginner/2009/01/18/the-staging-area.html

Other scms do not "hide"; other scms lack this feature altogether.

> I feel staging area is useful, but it is difficult to explain why when
> someone asks me about that.

See above.
-- 
David